Girl · Scottish, literary
Lorna
Say it: LOR-nuh
Meaning
Apparently coined by R. D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869), possibly from the Scottish place name Lorne.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Spread by the novel's lasting popularity.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1940s
In the United States
- 28,327 babies given this name since 1885
- At its height in 1942, about 1 in 2,600 girls
- 52 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Lorna Doone, heroine of Blackmore's novel
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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